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The false choice of the Brexit referendum

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That's democracy in action!

As the Brexit referendum looms closer, British people probably feel that they have engaged in an exhausting level of public participation and that whatever the outcome of the referendum, democracy will have been served.

“I would argue that prosaically material things are at the bottom of what most people really want. But ‘Do you want a decent job?’ has somehow become encoded in, ‘Are there too many immigrants?’ – which has further been distorted to, ‘Do you think the EU sucks?’

It is the failure to address core issues such as the need for a living wage, a fair education system, and affordable housing that opens the door for this kind of proxy thinking on umbrella issues. Everything is interpreted into Britain’s membership or non-membership of the EU, but nothing is promised and nothing is certain.”

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Journalist-idealist, I study at University of California (Riverside) and Universidad Europea de Madrid. I'm about to finish my degree in Journalism and International Relations and I'm passionate about International Politics and Human Rights.
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